Ingredients:

1 cup sama rice flour/samo/millet

1/2 cup ghee
1/2 cup sugar or palm jaggery ( I used 1/4 palm jaggery and 1/4 of mentioned quantity of sugar.)
1 cup boiling water or milk
some slivered almonds, nuts and raisins , any of them
A pinch of green cardamom powder

Method:

Take a deep pan ( non stick if possible ), add the ghee, first roast the cashewnuts and raisins, remove and keep aside.
In the same pan with ghee add the flour and keep roasting on a very low flame till a bit browned and becomes aromatic., at the same time keep boiling water or milk ready, add the water or milk slowly without a splash and keep stirring till it comes thick.Add the palm jaggery and sugar,
Add the flavors , almonds, cashewnuts, raisins, cardamom powder.
Keep mixture till it thickens to halva consistency.

Remove and serve. Easy wasnt it? It comes even quicker in a micro wave .

Happy Navarathri.

More health notes on sanwa/barnyard milets

Barnyard millets/Sanwa rice one of the preferred grains or flour during fasting is easily digestible and nutritious too.

One serving of this rice contains

carbs…21 %
protein ….3%
fat….1%
total 90 calories.

It is a great source of fibre,energy, B complex vitamins,with good amount of iron and magnesium.

Go for oragnic sanwa flour or grain, as the sanwa hull has major nutrients,the sanwa plant is high in fibre, iron and protein.

Samo rice is also known as vrat ka chawal, a kind of millet similar to barley. It is whitish cream in colour and tastes like broken rice, thicker than rava , smaller than daliya. It contains good amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.

About The Author

I am Radha Natarajan , author of Your Everyday Cook . Currently based in Chennai ( Tamilnadu ). Armed with professional degrees in Marketing and Advertising Iam now a full time mom , home maker and an avid blogger . Photography , travel tales and gardening takes my time besides food blogging.